Smoker&#39;s utensil



Jan. 2, 1934. E NEAHR 1,941,617

SMOKER S UTENS IL Filed July 51, 1951 INVENTOR Jacob E. Near/7r.

ATTORNEY 2-5 An object of the invention is MDT Patented Jan. 2, 1934 sMoxeas UTENSIL Jacob E. Neahr, Scarsdale, N. Y. Application July 31, 1931'. Serial No. 554,198

' 14 Claims.

This invention relates to smokers utensils and is in the nature of improvements which may be used with parts illustrated in my application #545,712, filed June20, 1931.

to provide an ornamental article which is simple in structure so that it.may be manufacturedat a low cost and whichv maybe used as an extinguisher, as a holder and as an ash tray for cigarettes.

A feature of the invention relates to means including a tray above the floor of which there is supported a grid against which the cigarette may be thrust perpendicularly and rotated slightly to remove the lighted ashes which then drops through the grid directly into the tray so that it may readily be. removed from the tray.

= Another feature of the invention relates to means'including a corral on thefloor of thetray to confine the ashes, which drops from the grid, 20' to the middleof the tray and to prevent a cigarette, in that portion of the tray outside the corral, from rolling into said ashes.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter-appear. J

In the accompanying drawing which forms part of the specification, I

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the device illustrating the invention;

Fig. 2 is a verticalv section of the device, taken 30 on the line 2'-2lof Fig. 1; and

' Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the extinguisher element; and

Fig. 4 is a detail'sectional view of a modified form of:the invention. 7

:Similar reference characters represent similar parts throughout the several views.

The device comprises a tray 5, of moldable' material such as glass, bakelite or the like, upon the floor 6 of which there is supported an extinguisher element 7 being thimble like in form and having a tube or throat 8 into which may be inserted the lighted end of a cigarette 0, when it is desired to extinguish it.

The element '7 is provided with a floor of open- .work formed by a grid 9 having a central portion 10 from which radiate arms 11 connected at their outer ends by a ring 12. In the center of the grid there extends upwardly the pointed end 13 of a screw 14 threaded into the central por- .tion 10 of the grid.

The screw 14 may be threaded into a metal bushing 15 in an aperture 16 of an upward extension 17 on the floor 6 of the tray; the bushing 15 being secured in said aperture by any suitable medium such as plaster of paris or glue. A collar 18 which may be integral with the screw 14 serves to locate the screw and the extinguisher element 'lproperly on the extension 17. The upper end of the throat portion 8 is flaired outwardly as at 19 to provide an easy entrance for the cigarette. The tray may be lifted by the element 7 which thus serves as a finger piece, the flared portion 19 forming a rib, which enables said element '7 to be grasped more securely.

From the foregoing it will be understood that to extinguish the cigarette it is inserted into the extinguisherelement '7 and pressed against the grid 9. The cigarette may then be rotated slightly and thus the lighted ashes is removed from the cigarette by a shearing action of the arms 11 of the grid. The ashes drops through the grid and into the tray where it may readily be removed.

To prevent the ashes, which drops from the extinguisher, from spreading all over the tray there is provided a corral 20 in the form of an annular rib formed on the floor 6. Said corral also prevents the cigarette C, if laid in the portion of the tray 21 between the corral and the rim 22, from rolling into the ashes confined by said corral.

The-grid 9 is a sheet metal stamping and has the central portion 10 pressed out therefrom to provide material for screw threads to firmly hold the grid on the screw stud 14. The grid may be held on the element '7 by pressing it up tightly into the lower end thereof and may further be secured thereto by short fingers 23 pressed out, from the'lower edge of the element '7, over the ring portion 12 of the grid.

In another form of the invention the extinguisher element 7 may be secured to the floor 6 of the tray as indicated in Fig. 4. Here the grid rests directly on top of the projection 1'7 and a headed screw 24 passes upwardly from the bottom of the tray through an aperture 25 and is threaded into the grid 9, the end of said screw having a point 26 to assist in breaking up the ashes. A washer 27 of leather or other suitable material may be inserted between the head of the screw 24 and the tray.

Having thus described the invention it will be understood that changes and alterations may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a cigarette extinguisher, the combination of a tube into which a cigarette may be thrust, a grid in said tube to break the lighted ashes from the cigarette, a receptacle into which the ashes drop from the grid, said tube being supported by said grid, and means to support said grid on said receptacle.

2. In a cigarette extinguisher, the combination of a receptacle, a post extending upwardly therefrom, an extinguisher element supported by and extending outwardly from said post at the upper end thereof, and a tube to guide the lighted end of the cigarette to said element, said element being formed to provide openings through which the ashes may drop.

3. In a cigarette extinguisher, the combination of a receptacle, a post extending upwardly therefrom, an extinguisher element supported by and extending outwardly from said post, and a pointed pin extending upwardly from the center of said element, said extinguisher element having perforations through which the ashes may fall.

4. In a smokers utensil, the combination of a tray, an extension projecting upwardly from the floor of said tray, a grid secured to the upper end of said extension and a tube supported on said grid by which the cigarette may be guided to said grid to extinguish the cigarette.

5. In a smokers utensil, the combination of a tray, a narrow extension projecting upwardly from the center thereof, a grid supported at the top of said extension and extending laterally therefrom in all directions, and a tube element flaring outwardly at its upper end to receive a cigarette and flaring outwardly at its lower end to embrace the edge of said grid, the grid ex tending far enough beyond said extension to permit the lighted ashes to drop through said grid into the tray.

6. In a smokers utensil, the combination of a tray, a stud extending upwardly from the floor of said tray, a thread near the upper end of said stud, a pointed end on said stud above the thread, and an inverted thimble like element having a perforated end which is screwed onto the threaded end of said post, said post being of smaller diameter than the perforated end of the thimble like element so that the ashes may drop through the perforations into the tray when a cigarette is pushed down into the thimble like element.

7. In a smokers utensil, the combination of a tray, an upward extension on the floor of said tray, and a hollow element open at its upper end and secured to the top of said extension, said hollow element having a perforated floor portion considerably wider than the post and also wider than a cigarette, the hollow element having also a guide portion about the diameter of a cigarette,

said hollow element flaring downwardly and outwardly from the guide portion to the floor portion.

8. In a cigarette extingisher, the combination of a receptacle, a grid supported above the floor of the receptacle, and a guide through which a cigarette may be conducted to the grid, said grid including a central portion, arms extending outwardly therefrom, and a ring to connect the arms at their outer ends.

9. In a smokers utensil, the combination of a thimble like extinguisher having a floor with an aperture therein againstwhich floor a cigarette may be thrust, a receptacle-beneath said extinguisher, and a support extending upwardly from the floor of the receptacle to the floor of the extinguisher, said support being narrower at its upper end than the floor of the extinguisher.

10. In a smokers utensil, the combination of a grid against which a cigarette may be thrust to extinguish it, said grid comprising a ring, and a plurality of arms extending radially inwardly therefrom, means to support said grid, and a guide supported on the ring of said grid through which the cigarette may be passed to said grid.

11. In a smokers utensil, the combination of a grid against which a cigarette may be thrust to extinguish it, said grid comprising a ring, a central portion, and arms extending inwardly from the ring to the central portion, a support engaging the central portion of the grid,'and a guide supported by said ring and'extending upwardly therefrom through which'a cigarette may:

be passed to the grid.

12. In a smokers utensil, the combination of a tray, an extinguisher of open-work supported above the floor of said tray and whereby the ashes may be removed from a cigarette, the ashesdropping through the extinguisher into the tray, and

a comparatively low'annular'rib extending up-.

wardly from said floor of said tray to confine the ashes which drop from the extinguisher to'a limited 'area in the tray.

13. In a saucer like ash tray, the combination of a cigarette extinguisher, a narrow post extending up from the floor of said trayto-the center of said extinguisher to support the 'latter, and an annular rib on said floor and extending around said post, the top of said rib being considerably lower than said extinguisher and forming two open compartments, namely a central compartment, and an outer compartment, said extinguisher having an aperture through which the ashes may drop into the central compartment.

14. In a smokers utensil, the combination of a grid, a guide supported on said grid to direct a cigarette to the grid, a pointed member on said grid to work up into the cigarette, a threaded stem on said pointed member, said stem extending through an aperture in the grid, and a supporting post threaded on to the end of the stem.

.JACOB E. NEAHR. 

